The Metropolis

"You could almost eat the soil" at the Olympic park

Mike Pollitt | Friday 3 February, 2012 11:12

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“Never, in the fields of leisure and national prestige, has so much dirt been scrubbed so expensively and with so much hope invested in the particles. You could almost eat the soil now.”

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